Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-16
KANSAS.
Condensed Reports Of tho Latest News.
from All Parts OF the SfAne.

will open Sept. l6.
Weir City is to have q $4,000
brick school-house.
The Kansas poultry and egg crop
is worth 81 100000.
A colony of seventy-five SwedeS
has located in Wallace county.
A Woman Suffrage association
has been formed at Garden City.
Rocks county is putting new
foundation under her court house.
The free-delivery system is to be
given to the town of Saline next
month.
Water works will be in process or
construction at Valley Fails before
long.
Abilene has converted her opera
house into barracks for the Salvation
army.
The silk season at Peabody is re-
ported to have taken 1000 pounds OF
coccons since opening last spring.
The insurance superintendent has
revoked the authority of the kaw
Valley association to do business in
Kansas.
Gov. Foraker and ex-Gov. Foster
of Ohio, are members of the company
that laid out the town of Augustine,
Logan county.
Kansas has Il daily and 775
weekly newspapers. This is an In
crease of 46 dailies and 800 weeklicS
since June, 1885.
"A Topeka vinegar factory Is to be
removed from that town tn Wichita
on account of restrictions placed upon
it by the city council.
Something over $SS,000 was ex-
pended for maintenance of poor farms
/ in the various counties of this State
| this year, and over $4,000 was the
outlay for charity's sake for outside
relief.
The Troy chief says: Severance
and vicinity are having dreadful
time with scarlet fever and diphtheria
epidemics. William Ward has lost
two children, James Cooney two, and
several other persons have each Lost
one. 1t is an unusual season OF the
year for these diseases.
Mayor Barker, of Lawrence,
Wednesday signed the occupation
tax ordinance passed by the city
several days ago. 1t has created
great deal of sensation in the city,
but the general opinion is that there
is no other method by which need
ed revenue to run the city can be
obtained. The mayor will be Sus-
tanned in his actions.
Owing to a misplaced switch the
engine and several cars of coal train
on the Leavenworth branch of the
Union Pacific ran off the track at the
junction with the main line near
Leavenworth, the other night, and
plunged down an embankment. The
engineer. Minden Of Wamego-
was instantly killed. The fireman
Frank Davis-received injuries from
which he died few hours later. The
head brakeman-Tom Brown-wRs
also killed.
Deputy County Clerk T. NJ.
Finley, of Anthony, was kidnapped
Wednesday by Harper parties acting
under the pretended authority OF .
Justice of the peace He was at the
time under the custody OF the sherih
pending trial on a writ of habeaS
corpus. The purpose Is hard to de-
termine, as the action was wholly un-
warranted and was stealthily done at
noon when the town was at dinner.
Warrants have been issued TO make
arrests for kidnapping.
AT a meeting Of the gentlemen
interested in the Denver short Line At
Leavenworth. John Wilson, President
of the Great Western Stove company,
was elected President Other officers
and directors were chosen for the new
company. The road, when built, viii
run directly from Leavenworth 70
Denver. making the former city the
distributing point for an immense ter
ritory The capital stock Is 81 100000.
steps were taken 10 commence prelim-
, inary surveys and secure franchises.
The so called league cases which
have been on trial in the district court
at lola were ended Wednesday by
Judgment in each Of the sixty against
the leaguers. They are electmert
suits brought by the purchasers Of
railroad lands against settlers who
squatted on them, claiming that the
railroad patents. on which the pur-
chasers titles were based, were void.
Several thousand acres are involved,
and the judgment rendered sustained
the railroad patent and is heavy
E reverse for the settlers. An appeal
Dr.. will be taken.
r Oscar Vanderbilt had known Mrs
( Maggie +. Brooks. a charming young
widow OF New Albany, Ind, for some
time, and had become engaged.
When the train arrived at Wichita,
Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Brooks WAS
on board alone She was met az the
depot by her brother, Joseph Norton.
} and his wife Of that place, and also BY
al Nnr.AAlas AaAHA aNAAR